Courtesy of the warped (and beautiful) minds of creative director Dean Evans and lead writer Lucien Soluban, Blood Dragon is set in a 1980s flavored reimagining of the year 2007. This standalone title uses familiar mechanics from December's Far Cry 3, except pirates and bandits are replaced by cyborgs. Outposts, which arguably made for the most interesting emergent narrative, are back and joined by a slightly different kind of wildlife. If you thought cassowary were nasty critters, you are in for a rude awakening.

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon is set to arrive on Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network, and PC on May 1, 2013.

This looks ridiculously awesome. I never played Far Cry 3, mostly because I didn't really love what I played of Far Cry 2, but I love the whole 80's action movie homage thing going on here. I might have to check this out.

The only thing that would have made this trailer even better was if they had ended it by saying "Directed by Paul Verhoeven" haha.